Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
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We have conducted thousands of auctions, and taught auction bid calling techniques around the United States, and testified in several...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
May 18, 20222 min read
Do you have to auction … anything?
We have run an auction house since 1999. In that time, we’ve learned that there are some who attempt to treat these types of...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Nov 17, 20213 min read
Can two bidders have the same “max bid?”
For online auctions — and for that matter, any auction — bidders can disclose or keep confidential their maximum (max) bid. I might...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Aug 23, 20212 min read
Auctioneers, video / audio recording
Auctioneers often utilize video and audio recording at their auction houses, and other events. Cameras will be up, signage will...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Aug 4, 20213 min read
Is that really the seller bidding?
Almost every week we receive a call, asking essentially “Can the seller bid disguised as another genuine bidder?” State law does allow...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jun 4, 20202 min read
Legal advice without the “the rest of the story …”
Auctioneers are certainly advised to secure an attorney for any legal advice. Yet, the advice that any certain action/plan is permitted...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
May 20, 20202 min read
An auction net listing
While most all net listings are deemed illegal in real property transactions, are net listings legal when the subject property is...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jun 19, 20192 min read
Farmers stand together so 80 acre farm goes for one bid?
https://mikebrandlyauctioneer.wordpress.com/2018/08/29/one-bid-and-200-other-bidders-stand-in-silence/. In that treatise, we suggested...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Aug 29, 20182 min read
One bid and 200 other bidders stand in silence?
The entire story is here: https://www.holidaysincornwall.com/farmers-stand-in-silence-at-auction-so-a-young-man-can-buy-back-his-family-...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 26, 20183 min read
Don’t bid live — bid online?
Such is the case (again) with http://www.youragentbid.com (Youragentbid) as they continue to contend that they are partnering with large...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Feb 8, 20183 min read
Is that next bid a higher bid?
However, what if my $270 bidder was paying with a credit card costing the seller 3.5% and the $265 bidder is paying cash? $270 minus 3.5%...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jan 8, 20183 min read
Unfair, unreasonable, inequitable … what does it all mean?
Shortly thereafter our first blog, fellow blogger extraordinaire and good friend Aaron Traffas wrote about our undertaking: ...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Dec 28, 20173 min read
Auctions with lost, misplaced and/or abandoned property
Property is generally deemed to have been … Lost if it is found in a place where the true owner likely did not intend to set it down, and...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Dec 21, 20173 min read
… but my seller cashed the check
Most recently, an inquiry involved a breach of contact of sorts — where the auctioneer did not follow the legal expressed wishes of his...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Dec 1, 20172 min read
Can auctioneers ignore bids?
It’s important for auctioneers to understand that first — they are typically agents for the seller (unless they are the seller,) and not...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Sep 21, 20172 min read
A curious auction claim — and a “slip of the tongue”
As Mr. Sharif knew well, in American Contract Bridge rules, bids by players which are deemed inadvertent (a slip of the mind, slip of the...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Sep 18, 20172 min read
Can an auctioneer/seller deny someone from attending their auction?
Our question today regards an auctioneer/seller denying another auctioneer — or anyone else — from attending their auction. And the...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Sep 11, 20173 min read
The “corruption” of the auction industry?
Some might say (including Shannon Hunter, Auctioneer) that these are the two most material issues in the auction industry today. In...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jul 28, 20174 min read
The integrity of the bidding process
Our topic today specifically regards bankruptcy auctions, but applies equally and reasonably to any type of auction anywhere in the...
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Mike Brandly, Auctioneer
Jul 24, 20173 min read
Does it cost to register?
Sometimes auctioneers charge a fee to register for an auction. For instance, to obtain a bid card, the bidder must provide...
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